Article 16
Deposits and other funding in cooperative networks and institutional protection schemes
1.
Where a credit institution belongs to an institutional protection scheme of the type referred to in Article 113(7) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, to a network that would be eligible for the waiver provided for in Article 10 of that Regulation or to a cooperative network in a Member State, the sight deposits that the credit institution maintains with the central institution may be treated as liquid assets unless the central institution receiving the deposits treats them as operational deposits. Where the deposits are treated as liquid assets, they shall be treated in accordance with one of the following provisions:
(a)
where, in accordance with the national law or the legally binding documents governing the scheme or network, the central institution is obliged to hold or invest the deposits in liquid assets of a specified level or category, the deposits shall be treated as liquid assets of that same level or category in accordance with this Regulation;
(b)
where the central institution is not obliged to hold or invest the deposits in liquid assets of a specified level or category, the deposits shall be treated as level 2B assets in accordance with this Regulation and their outstanding amount shall be subject to a minimum haircut of 25 %.
2.
Where, under the law of a Member State or the legally binding documents governing one of the networks or schemes described in paragraph 1, the credit institution has access within 30 calendar days to undrawn liquidity funding from the central institution or from another institution within the same network or scheme, such funding shall be treated as a level 2B asset to the extent that it is not collateralised by liquid assets and that it is not being dealt with in accordance with the provisions of Article 34. A minimum haircut of 25 % shall be applied to the undrawn committed principal amount of the liquidity funding.